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Abstract

In a recent paper a new subfamily of Psychodidae was inadequately named Protopsychodinae. This nomenclatural act cannot be considered as a valid name under ICZN regulations because the subfamily name is not based on the type genus DatziaStebner et al., 2015, and furthermore the fossil genus ProtopsychodaAzar et al., 1999 was originally described under the subfamily Psychodinae. Therefore, the new family-group name Datziinae is herein proposed.

Introduction

Stebner et al. (2015) recently described a new subfamily of fossil Psychodidae. However, the establishment of a new subfamily Protopsychodinae Stebner et al., 2015 with the type genus being Datzia is invalid under ICZN rules, article 29.1, because the subfamily name must be formed using the stem of the type genus name. Furthermore, ProtopsychodaAzar et al., 1999 is a valid genus described within the subfamily Psychodinae which would make Protopsychodinae (if validly established with Protopsychoda as the type genus) a junior synonym of Psychodinae (ICZN, article 23). The name Protopsychodinae is unavailable, and instead the new subfamily name Datziinae is established, based on DatziaStebner et al., 2015 as the type genus. Accordingly, the new subfamily name is herein proposed to include the type genus Datzia and the genus MandalayiaStebner et al., 2015.

Material and Methods

The electronic version of this article in Portable Document Format (PDF) will represent a published work according to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), and hence the new names contained in the electronic version are effectively published under that Code from the electronic edition alone. This published work and the nomenclatural acts it contains have been registered in ZooBank, the online registration system for the ICZN. The ZooBank LSIDs (Life Science Identifiers) can be resolved and the associated information viewed through any standard web browser by appending the LSID to the prefix “http://zoobank.org/”. The LSID for this publication is: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:67C1C754-CFB9-45DE-AD72-62F11071AD43. The online version of this work is archived and available from the following digital repositories: PeerJ, PubMed Central and CLOCKSS.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Christian Kammerer (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin) and Matthew E. Clapham (University of California, Santa Cruz) for pointing out the nomenclatural inconsistency in our previous paper, Richard Pyle (ZooBank) for reviewing the manuscript and providing very helpful advice for this work, and Jacqueline Thai (Head of Publishing Operations, PeerJ) for her constant efforts.

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests. Mónica M Solórzano Kraemer is an employee of the Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Sektion Mikropaläontologie I-Bernstein.

Funding

This research was possible with funding No. RU665/10-1 from the German Research Foundation (DFG), and a postdoctoral fellowship to Mónica M. Solórzano Kraemer, No. SO894/3-1 from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal was supported by the Project INECOL-10816. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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